Cocoa beans — Production by country
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area...
What the numbers show
Cocoa beans — Production is currently reported for 66 countries. The highest value is 632,702 t in Indonesia; the lowest is 0 t in Tonga.
The median across all reporting countries is 1,750 t, and the mean is 81,028 t.
Over the past decade 37 countries rose and 25 fell. The largest increase was in Fiji (up 2,320.4%), and the largest decrease in Malaysia (down 83.3%).
Cocoa beans — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | 632,702 t | 2024 | down 13.1% | volatile |
| 2 | Ghana | 530,000 t | 2024 | down 38.3% | rising |
| 3 | Ecuador | 403,699 t | 2024 | up 158.4% | volatile |
| 4 | Nigeria | 350,000 t | 2024 | up 6.1% | rising |
| 5 | Côte d'Ivoire | 1.89 million t | 2024 | up 15.4% | volatile |
| 5 | Cameroon | 320,000 t | 2024 | up 18.9% | rising |
| 5 | Melanesia | 50,916 t | 2024 | down 2.0% | rising |
| 6 | Brazil | 297,509 t | 2024 | up 8.7% | rising |
| 6 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 50,000 t | 2024 | up 1,566.7% | volatile |
| 7 | Peru | 157,252 t | 2024 | up 92.6% | volatile |
| 7 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 29,383 t | 2024 | up 28.6% | rising |
| 8 | Sierra Leone | 93,750 t | 2024 | up 448.8% | volatile |
| 8 | United Republic of Tanzania | 15,000 t | 2024 | up 30.4% | volatile |
| 9 | Colombia | 67,678 t | 2024 | up 41.8% | rising |
| 9 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 5,825 t | 2024 | down 2.4% | rising |
| 10 | Dominican Republic | 57,461 t | 2024 | down 17.8% | rising |
| 10 | Viet Nam | 1,500 t | 2024 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 11 | Caribbean | 63,807 t | 2024 | down 29.1% | rising |
| 11 | Uganda | 55,000 t | 2024 | up 96.4% | volatile |
| 11 | Polynesia | 482.72 t | 2024 | up 1.3% | volatile |
| 12 | Papua New Guinea | 45,000 t | 2024 | down 0.8% | rising |
| 12 | Timor-Leste | 177.11 t | 2024 | up 6.4% | volatile |
| 13 | India | 30,388 t | 2024 | up 102.6% | volatile |
| 13 | Micronesia | 31.08 t | 2024 | down 0.5% | falling |
| 13 | Micronesia (Federated States of) | 31.08 t | 2024 | down 0.5% | falling |
| 14 | Liberia | 30,000 t | 2024 | up 300.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Mexico | 28,448 t | 2024 | up 5.5% | rising |
| 16 | Togo | 25,000 t | 2024 | up 12.7% | volatile |
| 17 | Guinea | 24,222 t | 2024 | up 223.0% | volatile |
| 18 | Madagascar | 21,000 t | 2024 | up 93.3% | volatile |
| 19 | Congo | 15,000 t | 2024 | up 200.0% | volatile |
| 20 | Guatemala | 11,701 t | 2024 | up 4.4% | volatile |
| 21 | Philippines | 10,844 t | 2024 | up 99.8% | rising |
| 22 | Nicaragua | 9,317 t | 2023 | up 132.9% | volatile |
| 23 | Solomon Islands | 4,200 t | 2024 | down 14.4% | volatile |
| 24 | Sao Tome and Principe | 4,000 t | 2024 | up 25.0% | volatile |
| 25 | Haiti | 3,000 t | 2024 | down 79.5% | volatile |
| 26 | Honduras | 2,000 t | 2024 | up 42.9% | volatile |
| 27 | Vanuatu | 1,500 t | 2024 | down 10.5% | rising |
| 28 | Cuba | 1,463 t | 2024 | down 33.1% | falling |
| 29 | Sri Lanka | 1,150 t | 2024 | down 36.5% | falling |
| 30 | Dominica | 1,000 t | 2024 | up 65.3% | volatile |
| 30 | Costa Rica | 1,000 t | 2024 | up 42.9% | volatile |
| 32 | Equatorial Guinea | 600 t | 2024 | down 32.7% | volatile |
| 33 | Guyana | 487.74 t | 2024 | up 3.8% | volatile |
| 34 | Samoa | 482.72 t | 2024 | up 1.3% | volatile |
| 35 | Angola | 464.93 t | 2024 | up 11.2% | rising |
| 36 | Malaysia | 445 t | 2024 | down 83.3% | volatile |
| 37 | El Salvador | 370.06 t | 2024 | up 1.1% | falling |
| 38 | Panama | 291 t | 2024 | down 54.6% | falling |
| 39 | Trinidad and Tobago | 231 t | 2024 | down 29.6% | volatile |
| 40 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 230.92 t | 2024 | up 4.8% | rising |
| 41 | Belize | 225 t | 2024 | up 200.0% | volatile |
| 42 | Fiji | 215.9 t | 2024 | up 2,320.4% | volatile |
| 43 | Grenada | 203 t | 2024 | down 77.4% | volatile |
| 44 | Jamaica | 201 t | 2024 | down 82.6% | volatile |
| 45 | Central African Republic | 135.72 t | 2024 | up 10.8% | volatile |
| 46 | Thailand | 122.6 t | 2024 | down 14.9% | volatile |
| 47 | Gabon | 100 t | 2024 | down 50.7% | volatile |
| 47 | Benin | 100 t | 2010 | unchanged | volatile |
| 49 | Comoros | 43.68 t | 2024 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 50 | Saint Lucia | 16.6 t | 2024 | down 12.6% | volatile |
| 51 | Suriname | 4.59 t | 2024 | down 1.3% | volatile |
| 52 | Martinique | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 52 | Guadeloupe | 0 t | 2006 | — | volatile |
| 52 | Tonga | 0 t | 1992 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 5.23 million t
- Asia 677,328 t
- Africa 3.42 million t
- Middle Africa 390,301 t
- Western Africa 2.94 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 325,993 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 2.47 million t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 120,174 t
- Americas 1.08 million t
- South America 961,839 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 666,200 t
- South-Eastern Asia 645,790 t
- Eastern Africa 91,044 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 60,961 t
- Central America 54,084 t
- Oceania 51,430 t
- Southern Asia 31,538 t
About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.